There are some obvious big picture issues that stand between us and useful quantum computing. Issues like whether we can make ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Rivian admitted defeat with its LFP batteries after owners complained about calibration issues. Instead of pushing further, the EV startup decided to scrap the R1S and R1T Dual Standard base trims ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...

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The U.S. State Department has reportedly placed all full-time staff who were previously reshuffled to a remnant of what critics call its censorship office on administrative leave as the agency moves ...

Conservative critics have long accused the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub of helping to censor the American right. This story is part of MIT ...

When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...